Guidance for businesses

Refugees As Employees: Good Retention, Strong Recruitment underscores the business case for hiring refugees, showing that refugees have significantly higher retention rates than their non-refugee counterparts and that businesses that hire refugees tend to have a recruitment advantage, among other benefits. Full report available at the Tent Partnership for Refugees.  

Refugee Employment: Perspectives for businesses, policymakers & intermediaries  Commissioned by the World Bank’s Private Sector for Refugees Platform, this publication delves into the tangible benefits that businesses can derive from hiring refugees – from enhanced cultural competence and creativity to expanded market reach and improved employee retention.

How Hiring Refugees Helps Brands: Europe  This research commissioned by The Tent Partnership for Refugees revealed that European consumers are broadly supportive of brands taking concrete actions to support refugees. Report findings available here.

A New Home at Work: An Employer's Guidebook to Fostering Inclusion for Refugee Employees: Draws on first-hand research into effective employee experiences to propose a 6-pronged approach to fostering refugee inclusion in the workplace. 

Employers' Guide: A Quickstart Guide for Inclusive Hiring 
Migration Summit guide outlining best practices for hiring and onboarding, common barriers and solutions to refugee hiring and integration, benefits for businesses, a directory of support organizations, and more. 

Inclusive Recruitment Checklist 
Developed by Renaisi to support employers to embed more inclusivity into their recruitment approaches and workplace, with a refugee-specific focus. Although developed for the UK context, hiring managers/recruiters could adapt the tool to their country context by replacing with corresponding information from the country sub-pages or resource pages of National REPs.  

Engaging with employers in the hiring of refugees - A 10-point multi-stakeholder action plan for employers, refugees, governments and civil society  Draws on extensive consultations by UNHCR & OECD with employers and others who play a key role in promoting the integration of refugees in local and national labour markets, and sets out a clear way forward through a checklist of actions.